The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![lion, pettimugget, aud maid-hair; and by some wild rosemary. Descript.] This riseth up with diverse small, brown and square upright stalks a yard high or more; sometimes branch- es forth into diverse parts, full of joints, and with divers very fine small leaves at every one of them, little or nothing rough at all; at the tops of the branches grow many long tufts or branches of yellow flowers very thick set together, from the several joints which consist of four leaves a-piece, which smell somewhat strong, but not unpleasant. The seed is smali and black like poppy seed, two for the most part joined together. The root is reddish, with many small threads fastened unto it, which take strong hold of the ground, and creepeth a little; and the branches leaning a little down to the ground, take root at the joints thereof, whereby it is easily increased. There is another sort of Ladies bed-straw, growing frequently in England which beareth white flowers as the other doth yellow; but the branches of this are so weak, that unless it be sustained by the hedges, or other things near which it groweth, it will lie down to the ground; the leaves a little bigger than the former, and the flowers not so plentiful as these; and the root hereof is also thready and abiding. Place.] They grow in meadows and pastures, both wet and dry, and by the hedges. Time.] They flower in May for the most part, and the seed is ripe in July and August. Government and Virtues.] They are both herbs of Venus, and therefore strengthening the parts both internal and external, which she rules. The decoction of the former of those being drank, is good to fret and break the stone, provoke urine, stay- eth inward bleeding, and healeth inw ard wounds. The herb or flow'er bruised and put up into the nostrils, stayeth their bleeding likewise: The flowers aud herbs being made into an oil, by being set into the sun, and changed after it hath stood ten or twelve days; or into an ointment being boiled in Arunga, or sallad oil, with some wax melted therein, after it is strained; either the oil made thereof, or the ointment, do help burnings with fire, or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
